Bwhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

This is just so funny!

I'l like to identify with their clothing - that's about it!

Oh wait - possibly their hair styles - yeah - I'd like to identify with that!

WOMEN - send me your designer shoes or PERISH !

Pep (still laffing)

I do agree that a TV show or movie is not what made any of the WSs choose adultery (my H pretty much ONLY watches sports), that is just silly.

Still have not ever watched it and have no desire to watch it.

Mr Pep had a small role in Scarface (1983 - before some of you were born !) ... he has not snorted cocaine or killed anyone with a chain saw or semi automatic rifle - not yet anyway.

nevertheless - I plan on holding him personally responsible for the murder rate in America (the entire world - why the heck not?)



I am soooooooooooooooo enjoying this thread

Pep

Like I said, I was never a fan, just didn't watch it. The movie though WAS relaxing (but not an escape) because it made me laugh, it made me cry and it made me sad. It WAS enjoyable.

There are some scenes in it where you HAVE to be a woman to understand that were just hilarious. I could see me and my GFs sitting around saying the same things.

This was the FUN part.

Comparing this movie to watching a movie about child molesters is a bit much.

Everybody's DIFFERENT, Keep it Real..


This would DEPRESS ME and I DEFINITEY WOULD NOT WATCH SUCH A SHOW...

It's hard to explain to a FORUM who you REALLY are...

I WATCHED Sex and the City because I ADMIRED their FRIENDSHIP and loved their interaction with EACH OTHER...and identified with their FEMININITY or whatever...

I personally didn't EXPERIENCE the show as glamourizing ADULTERY or PROMISCUITY..if I THOUGHT it did, I probably would not have ENJOYED it..I didn't particularly ENJOY those parts of the plot..I LOVED it when they CRIED together and evidenced their LOVE for EACH OTHER..through THICK and THIN...even though they were DIFFERENT, they seemed to ACCEPT each other...

I personally could not stomach "DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES" but I don't JUDGE those who WATCHED it...

I DON'T ASSOCIATE with REAL PEOPLE who are ADULTEROUS and PROMISCUOUS..

I don't think you can escape it FULLY in the MEDIA or IN LIFE...

My opinion....

OMG! I fogot about this. ROTFLMAO

SUSHI ANYONE ?

Pep

I've always heard sushi at body temperature was best.

I haven't ever watched Sex and the City because I rarely watch TV [the prevailing world view is ODD and intellectually retarded] so I can't comment on it, but the shows that really bother me are movies like Bridges of Madison County. That is like watching a movie that glorifies RAPE.

It is absolutely REVOLTING to watch such a filthy, sleazy sordid saga romanticized. I was not amused when her children found her pig love letters after she died any more than I was amused to meet my father's mistress at his funeral. I was ashamed of my father and I would have been ashamed to find out my own mother behaved like a ho. There is nothing romantic or honorable about acting sleazy, IMO.

I do, however, think that guillible, silly people are influenced by the romanticization of adultery. We have had several OW come here and even tell us how much they love that movie.

PM, thanks for your perspective.
Yes I did preface that by saying it was "a step further". My whole point was that:
We would hate a move like that because of the disgusting characters and topics, so why wouldn't we hate a movie about promiscuous adulteresses as well?

Yep..HATE, HATE, HATE "Bridges of Madison County"..even HATED IT before I knew my H was having an affair...

What the HECK does that mean about me???

Like "Sex and the City" but not "Bridges"...

Maybe we should create a Personality Test...

LMAO!!!

Charlotte

In the movie, not one of the four main characters was promiscuous NOR committed adultery.

I don't know, mimi. I like Clint Eastwood but I never watched that movie. Never even knew what it was about, still really don't!! LOL!! But I have some idea now.

Don't feel bad Mimi. Bridges pi$$ed me off too and I saw it before my husband went off the deep end.

keepitreal: I think that's what they call "going off the deep end" I will not "think, for a second..." about such a movie.

Hollywood's got this under control. See, they make a point of giving us many different kinds of movies - for many different types of audiences. Will there be murderers in the Indiana Jones audience? Possibly. OW in the Sex & The City audience? Possibly. Child molestors in Disney's next big hit? Scary thought. Thing is, there's no prerequisite so I am comfortable liking what I like.

I can quietly respect your taste in movies even though they don't match mine.

I understand Mimi...Unfortunately that is also how many affairs start, so for ME, it is UNSAFE to use fantasy to escape anything in life...It did not serve me well in the past, so I now choose otherwise...Mr. W has taught me so much in this arena...Never has he wished to escape his real life - EVEN when things were BAD...ie. The affair...Even then he looked around him and said to himself, "This is MY life experience...Good or Bad, it is MINE...I will keep my eyes open and learn what I can from this." Wow, that just blows me away...I had never looked at life like that before...I do now...As a child I went through a lot of negative things due to my father's dual diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder and Alcoholism...I used fantasy to escape...Did A LOT of daydreaming...I continued that into my adult life...As I said, it did not serve me well...Now that I know better, I do better...

This verse hangs in the office of my Christian Counselor...I think it is very true...


I think we do have to "be careful"...

When I originally watched SATC, I wasn't "aware"-Sure, I knew that all the promiscuity wasn't really right, but I had become numb to it-I had a "live and let live", "everybody's doing it" attitude...Then through the horrific experience of adultery and later repentance, I became aware...Now, I can't turn that off, and I am glad...I believe it's very important to see things for HOW THEY ARE in real life, versus how they are in a FANTASY...

Do I believe that *I* was negatively impacted by seeing the SATC movie? No, I don't, because now I am aware...Sadly though, many people will see it without that awareness, and I believe that it does serve to make them numb to reality...to the impact of promiscuity, adultery, too much materialism, etc...I believe it helps to shape their worldview without them even being AWARE of it...

My mother's wise words come back to me constantly now...Ones that I HATED growing up-ones that I didn't truly understand until now..."Times may change, but morals never do"...That didn't mean anything to me for years...It does now...I get it now...I pray that we can impart it's meaning to our dd8 so that she won't have to become aware through tragedy...Sometimes we even use situations in t.v. shows/movies to teach her actually...Getting her to use critical thinking skills to follow the circumstances to their logical end...Showing her how that t.v./movies are FANTASY and why what they are teaching the general public is HARMFUL, unless you become aware...

Mrs. W

Really? Like i said i have never watched the TV show but just the title makes me think that is all it would be.

Were they in the TV show?

I only remember Samantha being promiscuious on the show . The other three were dating and having sex, yes, but not throwing it around all the time. I know a lot of women who are 'dating' and they tend to have sex sooner than later in their relationships. I can't say I agree with them, but it seems to be the way of much of the dating crowd.

Yes, really. I don't know about the TV show though, I never really watched it, but I've heard things.